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The Russian guitar is tuned mostly in thirds (not major thirds as stated)

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The following quote contains an error, or at least seems to express its intent poorly:

The repetitive open-G tuning D-G-B-D-G-B-D ... is used by the Russian guitar, which has seven strings tuned mostly in major thirds.

Simply counting the intervals show that there are equal numbers (2) of each of three intervals:

  1. perfect fourth D-G
  2. major third G-B
  3. minor third B-D

This is in contrast to standard tuning of a six-string guitar, E-A-D-G-B-E, which has four perfect fourths and only one major third (G-B). Perhaps the writer had this contrast in mind when writing "... mostly in major thirds"?

It would be truer, and more informative, to say instead:

The repetitive open-G tuning D-G-B-D-G-B-D ... is used by the Russian guitar, which has seven strings tuned mostly in thirds, in contrast to other guitars, which are tuned mostly in fourths.

If there's no major objection before I revisit this page (probably in a week or more), I propose to make such a change to the text.

yoyo (talk) 12:08, 30 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that "mostly in major thirds" is incorrect and unhelpful. "Mostly in thirds" is more accurate, but I think it's even better to say "mostly in triads," which is, of course, Open G tuning, and the topic of this page. I've made that change.
Whbjr (talk) 20:40, 25 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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